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Love-songs, at Once Tender and Informative II
A woman, like the touted Sphinx,
Sits, and God knows what she thinks;
Hard-boiled men, who never fall,
Say she doesn't think at all.
Poems on the topic: sphinx
Poems on the topic “sphinx” on Poets.by.
Japanese Hokku 3
Why sit like the sphinx,
Watching the caravan pass?
Join in the parade.
A Sphinx
Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
let out a whisper.
Processions came by, marchers, asking questions you
answered with grey eyes never blinking, shut lips
never talking.
Not one croak of anything you know has come from your
cat crouch of ages.
I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my
questions : I know the answers you hold.
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